Brandon Poole
Brandon Poole
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A Fuji Instax photograph of a deer, small and relatively distant in the frame, as seen through the ironwork gate of, what I presume is, a mausoleum in Ross Bay Cemetery. I found the photograph in the hollow of a tree in the cemetery while walking the dog, which was fortuitous, as I am in the middle of the beginning of production of a film which concerns an anecdote I was told about a site “where the deer come to die.” The site is not the cemetery depicted in the Fuji Instax photograph.
Brandon Poole is an artist, filmmaker and PhD Candidate at McGill University's School of Architecture, where he is a Vadasz Scholar and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow. With a background in journalism and philosophy, his practice and research examine the entwined histories and speculative futures of architecture, simulation and the image, while his films document the folkloric and vernacular constructions of place. He holds a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria. His work has been exhibited at Dazibao, University of Toronto Art Museum, the Toronto Biennial, Polygon Gallery and Deluge Contemporary Art. His films have screened at IMAGES, EXiS , Mimesis, non_syntax, Antimatter and Iowa City Docs.